UNCUT SUMMER Solstice Garden TOUR: A BIODIVERSE Showcase of LUSH Vibrant COMPANION PLANTING Designs!

I recorded all of this on July 1st, 2024 – my first chance right after solstice! An update full of DETAILED COMMENTS on a very WIDE VARIETY of different COMPANION PLANTING GROUPINGS and on what is going on in the garden 11 days after the solstice, in our ZONE 5b-6a Garden! Spring planting and transplanting often lasts right up to the solstice and even a few days after! There is just so much to do and so much to present, I’d have to do videos every day, all year! So much material! I thought I’d put out a video uncut! So here is some truly beautiful footage and I explain as we go along. Please let me know what you think! No editing! Completely uncut!

Let me know if you think putting some nice quiet music in the background of a video like this would be a good idea. 😊

Time Stamp Chapters:
0:00 Peppers and Malabar Spinach
2:05 Potatoes
2:57 Potato fruit blooms
3:15 Vertical perching elements for the birds
3:43 The THREE SISTERS: Beans, corn and squash helping each other out, each providing something to the group: protection from pests, growth structure, shade for the soil and roots, food for all three plants, attracting pollinators, and more!
5:00 Some of the useful ‘weeds’ that I begin to let grow at this time of year: plantain, oxalis, curly dock, dandelion, wild lettuce and even creeping charlie (it helps mask plants in the same way mint does).
5:59 Luffa, beans and birdhouse gourd on the CATTLE PANEL (hog panel, actually – a little smaller than a cattle panel).
7:20 Tomato companion planting group: Tomatoes, carrots, calendula, basil, lettuce and broomcorn sorghum
7:36 Hybrid tomato experiment update – going well. Some history to why I embarked on this experiment.
8:30 The blight in 2023 and why I think it affected my tomatoes particularly badly that year, and why some tomatoes resisted that year.
12:10 Calendula, asparagus and rhubarb and dealing with companion plants that sometimes grow too fast for their companions
12:45 Dino kale
12:59 Broccoli, cauliflower and basil companion group and their growth habbits. (I say cabbage, but there’s no cabbage there).
13:40 Crowded plants
14:34 Watermelon, basil, pepper, and okra companion plant grouping.
15:11 The burgundy-red stalks of the Seneca Red-Stalked corn
15:48 The rhubarb, and it’s seed stalk, not long after a big harvest
16:22 View of the Rain Garden from the Sun Garden
16:44 The wild grapes we eventually harvest, growing as part of our living barrier against foraging, planted by the birds!
18:12 Cabbage, pepper and beets companion grouping
18:30 Direct sowed sorghum – just getting started!
19:16 One of the onion areas
19:50 Direct sown carrots

We are Magali & Stefan. We live with nature on a little corner of the Earth that we have the honour of caring for. We grow our food while restoring and fostering native biodiversity to the land. Using nature as guide, we have created an abundant biodiverse FOOD FOREST. We are helped by frogs, birds, insects, snakes, fungi, bacteria, many many plants & so much more! We believe that if we can do this, so can you! When I was a kid, I was convinced I was not a good gardener. Well, I learned that THAT WAS NOT TRUE! If you know a few basic things about your sun exposure, your soil and your rain, YOU’RE GOOD TO GO! Learn about this and so much more! YOU DON’T NEED EXPENSIVE FANCY MACHINERY NOR A TON OF LAND! Whether you garden on a balcony, on a small city lot or out in the country, follow us if you want to learn about permaculture, biodiversity, homesteading, regenerative agriculture, food forests, chinampas, hugelkultur, food autonomy, habitat restoration, beyond organic, living with nature, native plants and ecosystems and their relationship to your garden and your health, preserving the harvest, No-Dig gardening, companion planting, exploring alternatives in lifestyle, building self reliance, growing vegetables, growing fruit, growing herbs & medicinals, biodynamic farming, developing a green thumb, sustainability, soil building & health, nature-guided gardening & living, collecting, processing & storing seeds, recipes for homegrown bread, syrups, jams, fermenting, pickles & more!

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